Brightspeed of West Missouri, LLC is a telephone operating company providing local telephone services in Kansas and Missouri owned by Brightspeed.
This brought all the lines formerly owned by both United Telecom/Sprint and GTE within the state of Missouri under ownership of the same company, as CenturyTel had previously purchased the former GTE Midwest lines in the state from Verizon in 2002, forming CenturyTel of Missouri; however both it and Embarq Missouri remained separate operating companies within CenturyLink.
Embarq Missouri at that point began doing business under the CenturyLink name.
On August 3, 2021, Lumen announced the sale of its local telephone assets in 20 states to Apollo Global Management, including Kansas and Missouri.
[1] Apollo formed a subsidiary called Brightspeed to acquire the assets from Lumen.